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Whistleblower Discovery Rights: Avoid the Pitfalls and Secure Adequate Evidence

Posted on by Stephen Danz
Category: Harassment, Retaliation, Whistleblower Protection
After a lawsuit is filed (and in many cases, before), you and your legal team should be creating a "to do" list of critical documents to demand from the defendant employer. These types of documents are valuable regardless of whether you are suing for retaliation under the Federal False Claims Act or the California Labo...

Worker Classification Cases Abound and the DOL Responds

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment - Class Actions, Wage Violations
Several more cases this week showed how worker (mis)classification remains a hot topic in the California employment law landscape.  One of the cases was settled for $295,000 when a class of trucking company driver managers brought claims that they were misclassified as exempt from overtime employees.  As opposed to m...

Whistleblower Protection: One Employee Gets Two Big Wins!

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Whistleblower Protection
As a Los Angeles employment law firm we represent whistle blowers in many industries, such as pharma, aerospace and health care. Rarely if ever does one whistle blower win two federal false claims suit, and never until now has it happened in two unrelated industries. "Real Housewives of New Jersey" start Jim Marches...